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decentralization in Ukraine
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Decentralization in Ukraine is already an economic success
Decentralization in Ukraine implies two important results for long-term economic growth: (1) more local taxes being paid and…
05/09/2020
Decentralization — a true success story from Ukraine
Decentralization is often said to be one of Ukraine’s most successful reforms. And with good reason.
05/08/2020
Impeachment, MP immunity, plastic bag ban, and Constitutional amendments. Ukraine’s latest major laws
On 23 December, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy signed a bill that grants the status of combatants and provides social…
30/12/2019
Referendums on controversial issues can undermine Ukraine’s unity – Tkachuk
[editorial]This article entitled “Cohesion and Security. Some thoughts about the important things which are skipped and turned a deaf…
09/08/2019
Decentralization: the mortal threat to Ukraine’s entrenched elites
In April 2014, Ukraine launched its decentralization reform. So far it is believed to be the most successful…
07/11/2017
Decentralization reform can be Ukraine’s success, if it doesn’t stop halfway
What is reform? It’s not an adopted legislation or a governmental act. It’s not a successful public procurement,…
11/07/2017
Only ‘de-Muscovization’ can save Russia from disaster, Eidman says
Vladimir Putin’s regime is “ideologically close” to the right-wing populism now sweeping the West in its “xenophobia, isolationism…
06/02/2017
Decentralization as a remedy for bad governance in Ukraine | #UAreforms
For decades Ukraine has suffered from the inefficient administration of its regions, and their subsequent political and financial dependence…
05/12/2016
Is Ukraine about to face ‘a parade of sovereignties’?
In the early 1990s, the Russian Federation faced what came to be known as “a parade of sovereignties”…
02/06/2016
Moscow-forced decentralization of Ukraine seen involving real risks
Many Ukrainians in the regions fear that decentralization will allow oligarchic clans to take control in some places…
12/09/2015
Ukrainian MP Hanna Hopko on the controversial decentralization vote
Monday, August 31 was marked with violent clashes in Kyiv over a key decentralization reform vote in the Ukrainian…
01/09/2015
Ukraine’s decentralization and Donbas “special status”: what you need to know
On Monday, August 31, clashes erupted at a protest against decentralization law outside Ukraine’s parliament. Key opposition figures…
01/09/2015
Decentralization bill sent to Ukraine’s Constitutional Court
The Verkhovna Rada voted on Thursday, July 16, to send President Poroshenko’s bill to amend the Constitution regarding laws…
16/07/2015